Time: Revealed: How Mars Lost Its Atmosphere by Jeffrey Kluger

The Red Planet lost its protective blanket of air billions of years ago. Now astronomers are certain why

Scientific American: Sex with Other Human Species Might Have Been Secret of Homo Sapiens’s Success

SVS Press Releases Book by "The Opinionated Tailor," Kh. Krista West - The Garments of Salvation

Les fondamentaux de la culture chrétienne

Also from KTOTV: La liturgie des heures

Fr. Z: REVIEW: The book on Augustine which Pope Benedict would have wanted to write.

Added this to my wish list as well.

St Augustine of Hippo, An Intellectual Biography, by Miles Hollingsworth

Rorate Caeli: Fr. Chad Ripperger's "The Binding Force of Tradition" - Book review

Pravmir: Archbishop Mark (Arndt): Advice to Potential Monastics

Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos

A post at Rorate Caeli reminded me of its existence: Summer Book Suggestions - 2nd Post: What book was important for your conversion or discovery of Tradition?

Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos published books by Dominicans like Fr. Santiago Ramirez, as well as Fr. Carlos Soria and Fr. Alberto Colunga, who are mentioned in that post. How is the publisher faring in the Spanish economy?

Some ideas for conferences and such... not that I would have the resources or standing or credentials to put one on my own, but maybe it is possible to find some sponsors for something less than academic. (Or more than academic, depending on your perspective and the ultimate end of such gatherings.) While the 20th century disputants may have passed on, what about revisiting the debate between the neo-scholastics (neo-Thomists) and the new theologians? Are there any today who would acknowledge being the successors to neo-Thomism? Or would they, like many Dominicans, see themselves as restoring or reviving a Thomism? How is each school to be distinguished from the other?


For the needs of "modern man," how are we to explain God and His saving work? Render scripture more intelligible? Understand God better?

Related:
"Uniting Faith and Culture: Hans Urs von Balthasar" by J. Peter Pham (via Insight Scoop)

Revue Thomiste - books

Présentation de la Revue Thomiste (le fr Serge Thomas Bonino)


Aquinas on the Spirit's Gift of Understanding and Dionysius Mystical Theology by Bernard Blackenhorn

Gilles Emery: "The Thomistic Doctrine of God and Dominican Spiritual Life"

First Things: Five Myths About Pope Francis by William Doino Jr.

The author does not touch upon liturgy.

Відеозвернення Блаженнішого Святослава до молоді

Live from Mumford Road: Episode 4 (Deacon Sabatino Carnazzo)

The Deacon went to Christendom; I believe he was more of a traditionalist while he was there, so I'm interested in his "journey to the East." He is a deacon at Holy Transfiguration (still one of my favorites) and heads the Institute of Catholic Culture.

Christ the Bridegroom Monastery

Should pick up an copy of the recent The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly - could be useful.

The Latest in the Hart Debate over Natural Law

Ed Feser links to some of the posts and writes his response: Hart stopping.

Byzantine Discalced Carmelites of Holy Annunciation Monastery, Sugarloaf, PA

Their website.

Zenit: Focolare Youth in Rio Will Teach Peers About Blessed Chiara
Also Leading Interreligious Dialogue Project

Sandro Magister: The Prelate of the Gay Lobby

Facts and personages of the scandalous past of the man whom Francis, unaware, delegated to represent him at the IOR. Here's how a parallel power lives and thrives at the Vatican, plotting to the harm of the pope

John Cavidini reviews George Weigel's Evangelical Catholicism: Church as Sacrament

Is Cavidini making too much of Weigel's use of friendship?

For example: “Evangelical Catholics know that friendship with the Lord Jesus and the communion that arises from that friendship is an anticipation of the City of God in the city of this world.” Despite the echo of Augustinian language, the theological syntax is foreign to the ­Augustine of the City of God and to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which invokes his ecclesiology of the totus Christus. The communion of the Church does not arise from personal friendship with the Lord Jesus, but from Christ’s undeserved, atoning love which, mediated by the sacraments, makes the Church. The Church is the bond of communion, whether it is consciously known in a subjective friendship or not.

Do Protestant Evangelicals talk about friendship with Christ? Or a personal relationship? Friendship with God can also be a way of understanding caritas (Aquinas's definition, after all) - which is itself a gift of God and the Church can be understood as the social dimension of caritas.

It is significant that Weigel claims Dei Verbum, not Lumen Gentium, is “the key Vatican II document for the deep reform of the Catholic Church.”He never mentions the doctrine, prominent in Lumen Gentium and emphatically repeated in the Catechism, that the Church is the sacrament of communion with God and of unity among human beings.

I don't plan on reading Weigel's book in the near future; but what if his "friendship" with Christ is equivalent to "communion"? What is the relationship of the Church to this? Does Christ save individuals as individuals? Or as members of a new people? It could be that Weigel is not sufficiently precise in his writing and that the book is as problematic as Cavidini suggests.

John Burger on Orientale Lumen

CWR: Grassroots Ecumenism of Friendship Keeps Orthodox-Catholic Hopes Alive by John Burger
Orientale Lumen Conferences Boost Participants’ Knowledge of Issues, Forge Ties

Related:
Pope in a Minefield by Tim Kelleher

Ancient Faith Radio: Searching for the Sacred Symposium (mp3)